Motivational Quotes

Goals

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English